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Keyboard Commando – Forthcoming carbon taxes prove governments have addictions

Mac Olsen Once a tax is imposed, a government will never abolish it. They are addicted to that revenue source, even when the purpose it’s used for doesn’t produce the expected results. That will certainly be the case with the…

October 16, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – A lesson to be learned

Chris Clegg Charlie Brown had just lost another heart-breaking baseball game. As always, he was blaming himself for the loss and not his trusty teammates. “Don’t be discouraged Charlie Brown,” Shermy tells him. “In this life we live, there are…

October 16, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – The only thing clarified by the 1st US presidential debate is the absence of inspired leadership

Tom Henihan A debate is a constructive argument expressing two or more opposing points of view. Its purpose is to illuminate the topics under discussion in a restrained and constructive manner. A debate, especially a political debate, is also a…

October 8, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Keyboard Commando – Unauthorized AHS record access shows there’s no foolproof privacy

Mac Olsen Several recent high-profile incidents of information breaches should make you hyper-vigilent in protecting your privacy. Not that there is any absolutely full-proof way to protect your privacy, but if your private information falls into the wrong hands, then…

October 8, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – Tracking down the elusive Mr. Stoess

Joe McWilliams Chris Clegg of the High Prairie South Peace News posed an intriguing question a couple of weeks ago: Who is the person that ‘Stoess’ Street in High Prairie is named after? Nobody in High Prairie historical circles seems…

October 6, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – The archaic notion of royalty is incompatible with the tenets of a modern, secular society

Tom Henihan Don’t you hate it when people invite themselves over and leave you no choice but to pretend that you will be delighted to see them? And to add to the imposition, without saying a word, you know that…

September 29, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Keyboard Commando – Let’s pray for Kathleen Wynne to go down to defeat in 2018

Mac Olsen For someone who is supposed to be against the use of fossil fuels and promotes a “green energy” agenda, I find Premier Kathleen Wynne of Ontario to be contradictory in her message. Last week, I saw a photo…

September 28, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – When social media is unsocial media

Richard Froese Social media seems to be coming more prominent in the lives of people, especially youth and children. “Kids getting too much screen time” is the headline of a story in the Edmonton Journal on Aug. 27 that tells…

September 28, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – 9/11 attacks on Twin Towers are an indelible tragedy but life must go on

by Tom Henihan By most people’s estimation a fifteenth anniversary is not a seminal occasion, it is not of a fixed, shared significance like ten, twenty or twenty-five years and beyond that the gap usually grows wider with fifty years,…

September 23, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Keyboard Commando – When it comes to acts of malevolence and sarcasm, kids are off limits

by Mac Olsen I can still remember the three-minute ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ educational cartoons from the 1970’s, in particular the ‘Interjection!’ episode. In this cartoon, a football player passes the pigskin to the opposing team, so they win the game. All…

September 22, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – Alberta’s fentanyl crisis requires immediate action

by Tom Henihan By any measure, 153 deaths in six months is an alarming number especially when the cause of those deaths, the pharmaceutical drug fentanyl, will in all likelihood result in more fatalities as the year progresses. There were…

September 21, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – Vetting immigrants for anti-Canadian values is in itself anti-Canadian

by Tom Henihan ate for the leadership of the Conservative Party, recently expressed regret for having fronted a proposed “barbaric cultural practices tip line,” during the last federal election. In her disclaimer, the former minister for the status of women…

September 18, 2016 · by Admin2015 ·